Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] so [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their vents are pressed together so that the sperm can make its way into the female . |
| 2 | They sat down in the road and , when the state police dragged them away , they threw jackrocks under the wheels of the ‘ scab ’ trucks ( a jackrock is a couple of sharpened nails welded together so that no matter which way they land , they always have a point sticking up in the air ) . |
| 3 | But some creatures , notably the American Allosaurus , had several bones in its skull loosely joined together so that the entire skull could yield to pressures of various sorts . |
| 4 | If no sand filter is installed , then for pump-fed filters it should be plumbed in so that it intercepts water before it enters the chamber(s) . |
| 5 | By the time the pub had filled enough so that the punters were giving me dirty looks for taking up so much room , I felt I had discovered enough to put two and two together and make five if not six . |
| 6 | All the happenings of the night had mixed together so that he no longer knew whether he had really been woken and heard the Woman 's hushed , hissing voice and the faint News from the radio . |
| 7 | For example , Uranus , which is much more massive than the Earth , seems to have been tipped over so that it lies on its side . |
| 8 | He says TB is a problem with badgers , but killing every animal which is caught just so that it can be tested for the illness is n't the answer . |
| 9 | Trees which had been hacked and chopped and mutilated , which had had branches torn away so that they could be roughly stacked against the wall . |
| 10 | I 'd rather him not travel it , I 'd rather him stop here on Sunday and not come home so that he 's got ample rest , cos he 's not getting it I , I , I du n no , I , I might be wrong , but he moans at me cos I knock me |
| 11 | His head looked like that of a statue that someone had found and rolled home so that all the delicate parts had broken off . |
| 12 | By this time the wagonettes had caught up so that the rest of the day proceeded according to plan . |
| 13 | The Labour party wants application procedures to be speeded up so that we have a proper , fair and effective system that ensures that this country continues its long honourable tradition of providing asylum for refugees . |
| 14 | Therefore it is the responsibility of the LIFESPAN Manager to ensure that the log file is deleted periodically so that it remains a sensible size . |
| 15 | The interviewer 's questions may be edited out so that all we see is the individual talking although the interviewer was in fact standing slightly to the left or right of the camera . |
| 16 | This kind of commentary is usually produced by means of an interview , although again the interviewer 's questions will often be edited out so that the commentary sounds like continuous speech . |
| 17 | And because one would share with neighbours , it was rather spaced out so that people could benefit over a longer period . |
| 18 | Music played loudly from the dining-room next door , where the carpets had been rolled back so that people could dance . |
| 19 | They were hoping to get their skis and parkers sorted out so that they could get off I think tomorrow but they only got five days skiing cos they leave again , either Sunday morning or Saturday night . |
| 20 | It is best collapsed sideways so that it is the shape of one airfoil end . |
| 21 | These are usually supervised by a qualified nurse and must be carried out so that they meet the requirements of law and hospital policy . |
| 22 | The operations will be carried out so that it is possible to find out how much the order will cost , whether the product is in stock , and whether the customer 's credit limit is OK . |
| 23 | The danger with regard to capital gains tax is not so much that the protector may be treated as a trustee , which is very unlikely in a properly drawn protectorship clause in the deed , but that he may de facto intervene in the way the trust is carried out so that the Revenue may argue that the general administration of the trust is not ordinarily carried on outside the United Kingdom . |
| 24 | The surveyor should ensure that his inspection is carried out so as to avoid damage to contents and to the property . |
| 25 | The fringes of the carpet had been teased out so that the individual strands could be seen . |
| 26 | Each session must be planed ahead so that no time is wasted in the session trying to find and decide what to do . |
| 27 | Preference shares usually carry a right to fixed dividends , but if on any dividend payment date Newco has insufficient distributable profits to meet these , they are rolled forward so that the shares may accrue a right to a premium , representing rolled-up dividends , payable on redemption . |
| 28 | Despite the urging of Wicksell and the modern public choice theorists , in practice the two sectors of the budget are essentially treated separately so that very few expenditure proposals come forward with a specific financial source specified . |
| 29 | Alternatively , the prices could be adjusted somehow so that they met total costs . |
| 30 | As was seen in the previous section , the legal ingredients of the offence were successively whittled away so that public alarm became of relative insignificance , although the offence was apt to be charged in cases of group disorder . |